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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Literal Language
Epic
Complication
Couplet
2. A poem that tells a story.
Suspense
Act
Spondee
Narrative Poem
3. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Flashback
Diction
Metaphor
4. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dialogue
Closed Form
Narrator
Convention
5. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Aside
Elision
Repetition
Nonfiction
6. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Denotation
Convention
Rhythm
Personification
7. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Metonymy
Alliteration
Imagery
8. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Conflict
Author's Purpose
Literal Language
Narrative Poem
9. The main character of a literary work.
Image
Dactyl
Protagonist
Apostrophe
10. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Structure
Closed Form
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Meter
11. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Literal Language
Sonnet
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Solioquy
12. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Villanelle
Paradox
Character
Dramatic Irony
13. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Internal Conflict
Octave
Myth
Blank Verse
14. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Climax
Voice
Cliche
Lyric Poem
15. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Closed Form
1st Person
Onomatopoeia
Catharsis
16. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Denotation
Plot
Denouement
Parody
17. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Metaphor
Convention
Closed Form
Aside
18. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Pyrrhic
Dialogue
Sonnet
Rhyme
19. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Oxymoron
Persona
Metaphor
1st Person
20. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Allusion
Understatement
Villanelle
Irony
21. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Epigram
Repetition
Conceit
Sestina
22. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Free Verse
Style
Author's Purpose
Exposition
23. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Theme
3rd Person (Limited)
Legend
Iamb
24. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Onomatopoeia
Irony
Sestet
Reversal
25. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Verbal Irony
Assonance
1st Person
Recognition
26. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Narrator
Foot
Protagonist
Alliteration
27. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor
Ode
Closed Form
Metonymy
28. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Metaphor
Rhyme
Act
Oxymoron
29. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Synecdoche
Foot
Elegy
Spondee
30. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Oxymoron
Climax
Ode
Verbal Irony
31. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Quatrain
Solioquy
Audience
Characterization
32. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Literal Language
Epiphany
Act
Flashback
33. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Voice
Dialect
Falling Action
1st Person
34. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Analogy
Tone
Author's Purpose
3rd Person (Omniscient)
35. The selection of words in a literary work.
Fiction
Falling Action
Diction
Falling Meter
36. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Alliteration
Solioquy
Assonance
Sestet
37. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Hyperbole
Subject
Verbal Irony
Connotation
38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
3rd Person (Limited)
Lyric Poem
Rhythm
Stereotype
39. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Closed Form
Iamb
Apostrophe
Recognition
40. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Repetition
Conceit
Sestina
Ballad
41. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Rhythm
Meter
Analogy
Internal Conflict
42. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Repetition
Alliteration
Setting
Cliche
43. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Catharsis
Foreshadowing
Stereotype
Allegory
44. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Exposition
Subplot
Dialogue
Villanelle
45. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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46. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Foot
Allegory
Pyrrhic
Denouement
47. What a story or play is about.
Syntax
Symbol
Subject
Simile
48. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Iamb
Dramatic Irony
Figurative Language
Ode
49. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Sestet
Sonnet
Characterization
Comic Relief
50. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Couplet
Simile
Syntax
Personification
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